Achieving Justice in Genomic Translation

Re-Thinking the Pathway to Benefit

Sara Goering editor Wylie Burke editor Kelly A Edwards editor Suzanne Holland editor Susan Brown Trinidad editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc

Published:13th Oct '11

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This book explores implicit choices made by researchers, policy makers, and funders regarding who benefits from society's investment in health research. The authors focus specifically on genetic research and examine whether such research tends to reduce or exacerbate existing health disparities. Using case examples to illustrate the issues, the authors trace the path of genetics research from discovery, through development and delivery, to health outcomes. Topics include breast cancer screening and treatment, autism research, pharmacogenetics, prenatal testing, newborn screening, and youth suicide prevention. Each chapter emphasizes the societal context of genetic research and illustrates how science might change if attention were paid to the needs of marginalized populations. Written by experts in genetics, health, and philosophy, this book argues that the scientific enterprise has a responsibility to respond to community needs to assure that research innovations achieve much needed health impacts.

The topics the book covers represent a pantheon of issues relating to genetic translation, from the political underpinnings to the historic uses of newborn screenings. The chapters covering prenatal and neonatal screenings are especially well done ^b Doody's Listings

ISBN: 9780195390384

Dimensions: 160mm x 239mm x 18mm

Weight: 494g

224 pages